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Police have identified leg and foot washed on two Christchurch beaches as belonging to the same missing man.
Constable Steven Johnstone said police had received forensic results which show the foot and leg belonged to man "we thought it belonged to".
The man has not yet been named.
There were no suspicious circumstances and police have referred the matter to the coroner.
The lower left leg complete with a sock and boot was found on South Shore, Christchurch on February 10.
Southern police communications shift manager Hemi Waretini told NZPA a member of the public found the limb.
It had been in a deep pool and was left behind when the tide went out.
The foot, in an ankle sock, washed up on Christchurch's Sumner Beach last December.
An off-duty policewoman walking her dog found the foot at the high tide mark on the beach.
A pathologist's examination said the foot was probably from a male Caucasian, who wore size eight or nine shoes and kept his toenails well maintained.
Mr Johnstone said it appeared the foot had been in the water for "weeks or months depending on the depth of water it was in before resurfacing".
He said the body parts did not belong to 46-year-old Graham White whose body was never found after he disappeared while trying to swim across Lyttelton Harbour on August 11 last year.
- NZPA
